"Requests are related to documents mentioned in the parliamentary probe like a request by partners to set up premises in Lithuania for the detention of people, as well as cooperation agreements between Lithuania's SSD and the American CIA," Meta Adutavičiūtė of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute told BNS on Monday.
The SSD has so far rejected similar requests by the non-governmental organization. On Tuesday, Vilnius Regional Administrative Court is scheduled to start hearing a case where the institute is asking the court to make the SSD declassify a protocol of an SSD expert group regarding the institute's requests as well as a recommendation to the head of the SSD.
"We want to know what proposals and recommendations were presented to the head of the SSD regarding that information. We believe this information is classified unreasonably. We might want to appeal against such a conclusion by the commission and the SSD head's decision based on it in court, if needed," Adutavičiūtė said.
In her words, the institute has also appealed against earlier decisions by the SSD to refuse to declassify documents mentioned in the conclusions of the parliamentary investigation.
In the conclusions of the parliamentary probe, published in late 2009, the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defense said it had identified "that the SSD received partners' request to equip premises in Lithuania for the detention of a detainee."
Two locations were identified in Vilnius and near the Lithuanian capital where premises might have been equipped for the detention of people, as well as a few CIA-linked flights to Vilnius and Palanga in 2003-2006. The investigation failed, however, to identify if any suspected terrorists were actually brought to Lithuania.
